their vicinity, but remained at Mittenvald the whole evening.

Our inn had long airy galleries, and a pleasant balcony fronting the
mountain. In one of these we dined upon trout fresh from the rills,
and cherries just culled from the orchards that cover the slopes
above. The clouds were dispersing, and the topmost peak half
visible, before we ended our repast. Every moment discovering some
inaccessible cliff or summit, shining through the mists, and tinted
by the sun with pale golden colours. These appearances filled me
with such delight and with such a train of romantic associations,
that I left the table and ran to an open field beyond the huts and
gardens, to gaze in solitude and catch the vision before it dissolved
away. You, if any human being is able, may conceive true ideas of
these glowing vapours sailing over the pointed rocks; and brightening
them in their passage with amber light.

When all were faded and lost in the blue ether, I had time to look
around me and notice the mead in which I was standing. Here, clover
covered its surface; there, crops of grain; further on, beds of herbs
and the sweetest flowers. An amphitheatre of hills and rocks, broken
into a variety of glens and precipices, guards the plain from
intrusion, and opens a course for several clear rivulets, which,
after gurgling amidst loose stones and fragments, fall down the
steeps, and are concealed and quieted in the herbage of the vale.

A cottage or two peep out of the woods that hang over the waterfalls;
and on the brow of the hills above, appears a series of eleven little
chapels, uniformly built. I followed the narrow path that leads to
them, on the edge of the eminences, and met a troop of beautiful
peasants, all of the name of Anna (for it was her saintship's day),